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Technology (IT) is becoming increasingly important to the business strategy, operations and internal audit of most organizations today. This journey often raises additional issues of security, integrity and control. At Advanced ICT Consultants & Auditors LLP, we understand how vital it is to manage these business and regulatory concerns. We deliver IT Audit and Advisory services to the most complex environments and recognize that every client is different. Our experience, knowledge and customized approach allows us to develop solutions tailored to your business whilst remaining focused on risk.

Our IT Audit & Risk Advisory Services Group can help protect your organization’s information systems, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and provide insights to leverage IT controls to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. It’s important that you engage with a firm that understands your business and the regulations of your industry. You need a one-stop shop for information technology assurance and security—one that provides meaningful recommendations to help you protect your data assets. Our risk assessment practice helps mitigate the potential loss due to error, fraud, inefficiency, failure to comply with statutory requirements.

IT Risk Assessments

As part of our engagement methodology, in order to determine whether IT controls protect corporate assets, ensure data integrity and are aligned with the business's overall goals. Our IT auditors examine not only physical security controls, but also overall business and financial controls that involve information technology systems. Outlined below are some of the key deliverables from our consulting engagements:

  1. Evaluate the systems and processes in place that secure company data.
  2. Determine risks to a company's information assets, and help identify methods to minimize those risks.
  3. Ensure information management processes are in compliance with IT-specific laws, policies and standards.
  4. Determine inefficiencies in IT systems and associated management.
 

1 IT Audit and Compliance

Audit your security strategy, and controls to ensure that they are appropriate to protect your key digital assets. The result is a prioritized list of security gaps and needed controls.
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2 Disaster Recovery Plan Audit

To ensure the effectiveness of your DRP, it is necessary to develop an audit procedure to survey the plan for its effectiveness. The audit process ensures that the plan is adequate as well as current.
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3 Business Continuity Plan Audit

The review focuses on the enterprise business continuity plan, policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, laws and regulations that address maintaining continuous business services.
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IT Risk Assessments

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IT risk assessments are the next step after performing a business impact analysis (BIA). Once you've performed a BIA on your organization and have analyzed critical business functions and identified the impact a loss of those functions could have on your organization, you can begin your IT risk assessment.

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Network Application and Security Reviews

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Our Network Architecture Assessments aim at reviewing the network infrastructure design and configuration for deficiencies that would expose the organization to risk. A Network Architecture Review engagement is focused on the architecture of the network, with an emphasis on identifying and analyzing the effectiveness of security controls present in the network.

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Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Plan Reviews

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The effectiveness of a Disaster Recovery Plan is diminished by changes in the environment that the plan was created to protect. These changes can take many forms. The following are some major factors that tend to reduce the plan’s effectiveness:

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Application Pre-Post Implementation Reviews

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Best practices indicate the need for such reviews during the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure the timely delivery of a secure and compliant product. By incorporating code testing early in the SDLC, you greatly reduce the cost of resolving errors and remediating vulnerabilities during late-stage testing or post deployment.

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General IT Controls Review

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Our risk assessment practice helps mitigate the potential loss due to error, fraud, inefficiency, failure to comply with statutory requirements and actions that may have a negative effect on an organization. If your organization has ever asked these questions, a risk assessment may be right for you:

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Security Audit and Functional Audit of Business Systems

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IT system audits focus on security controls over physical and logical security of the server, including change control, administration of server accounts, system logging and monitoring, incident handling, system backup and disaster recovery.

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